Basilis
Βάσιλις
Basilis (Βάσιλις, Βασιλίς: Eth. Βασιλίτης), a town of Arcadia in the district Parrhasia, on the Alpheius, said to have been founded by the Arcadian king Cypselus, and containing a temple of the Eleusinian Demeter. It is identified by Kiepert in his map with the Cypsela mentioned by Thucydides (5.33). There are a few remains of Basilis near Kyparíssia. (Paus. 8.30.5; Athen. p. 609e.; Steph. B. sub voce Leake, Morea, vol. ii. p. 293; Ross, Reisen im Peloponnes, vol. i. p. 89.) [CYPSELA]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.